The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-17
STOMACH TINKERINo.
The Disposition of Man to Take Liberties
 With a Patient Friend.

The Disposition of Man to Take Liberties
 With a Patient Friend.
 "There is nothing on which a man experiments oftener than his stomach" |" said New York gentleman who is old enough to have dyspepsia and young enough to hope to be cured. "A nun will tinker with his stomach when he wouldn't think of interfering with lis clerk or book-keeper in his store. Yet he has been in business all his life, and probably could take the place of his book-keeper tomorrow. The book keeper has his work to do, and so long as he does it well his employer doesn't come around with a new system or a new style of books every week or two and have the book-keeper switched off. That's not the way to do business; but the very man who wouldn't potter around with his employees goes experi- menting on himself when he doesn't know what, if any thing, is the matter with him.
 There's thing 1 read a few weeks ago that a man should drink few pints of hydrant water immediately on getting up in the morning. Now let me give you list of the things that a man should take into his stomach the first thing every morning. I've author ity for all these; some have been told me by friends, the majority l have seen in the papers, which have recently done a good deal in this good for the stomach in the morning line:
 A pinch of salt in ice water. A teaspoonful of salt in water as hot as you can take it.
 A cold lemonade very sweet. Hot lemon juice with salt.
 Eat lemon without drinking any thing Strong co1ee.
 Tea and toast
 The juice of three oranges.
 A raw egg
 Figs.
 Immediately on getting up take a hard cracker And devote five minutes to masticating It | thoroughly.
 Take tepid bath and absorb water through | the pores of your skin. This will make you | active and Timber all day. Exercise till you are in a sweat. Then drink water that has been boiled, thus making sure of l the death of any germs.
 That is only start on the list. There is a fascination in it to me. I want to try each one of those direG- tions and see what effect it has on me. Every week or so I see a new one, and I experiment with that. There must be something good in them for somebody, but what I want to know is why have they such fascination for most men? Why must man always be tinkering with his stomach? There are hundreds of patent medicines, and the proprie- tors of all of them are growing rich. It has gone so far that patent medi- ciues are advertised to counteract the effect of injurious and impure drugs taken under the guise of tonics. Next there will be new patent medicines to counteract the effects of these. All these medicines have big sale. There seems to be an instinct in a man 5 stomach, like a child's desire for every new toy, that makes him want to give his stomach an experience with every new medicine he hears of, or advice kind friends and newspapers give him.
 "It sometimes seems to me that the mortal spirit of mankind that formerly had an outlet in cracking some one's head with battle-axe or jabbing lances at each other on holidays now vents it. self in making a battle ground of a mans stomach. One friend says:
 "'Old fellow, you're not looking we'll Dyspepsia again? Well, 1 know just the thing for it. Take a pint of boiling water every morning. Brace you up. Make you feel like new man.
 Next friend comes along, says same thing, only cold water. Another man says some patent mineral water. Try them all. My stomach is the most precious thing about me. If it is out oi order, I'm no good. When it's in fine trim I'm chipper. If I were going to in- vest ten cents in scheme I'd want to know what it was and what return I'd get before I'd put my money in. Still' try any number of experiments on my stomach, and scores of other men that know do the same thing. Isn't mans stomach more precious than his money? I wonder what weakness oi human nature it is that makes him more careful of the wrong one. Is 1t curios' ity or a hankering after something | neWp'-N r Sum